"It's a crock of s***. If she wants to help the kid she should have got the father a little trade going, a fruit stand or something like that and built him a mud hut."

"If the kid is sick then get him a doctor, what was the father supposed to do, he can't read or write."

She added: "She should have left him in his own culture, that is what I say."

"Madonna should have given the money to an orphanage, got them a 24-hour paramedic. She bought a baby for God's sake."

It comes as a judge in Malawi adjourned to November, a hearing into an application by child rights groups trying to block the adoption of Malawian David Banda by the pop star.

"The hearing has been adjourned...for the judge to hear other parties involved," Madonna's Malawian lawyer Alan Chinula told Reuters after he and counsel for the rights groups met high court judge Andrew Nyirenda in his chambers.

Yohane Banda, father of one-year-old David, who was flown to London earlier this month to join the singer, went to the court in central Lilongwe, saying his presence was a symbolic protest against the legal moves to halt the adoption.

He said in a TV interview he had given his blessing to the adoption, despite reports that he misunderstood what the agreement meant.

He said: "I'd like to tell Madonna not to worry about what people are saying. I wish her all the best raising my son."

Controversy over Madonna's adoption plan has raged since the American singer spent more than a week in Malawi earlier this month on what her publicists said was a humanitarian mission to help hundreds of thousands of Malawian orphans.

The coalition of rights groups says the government broke its own laws which forbid adoption of any Malawian child by a non resident by granting Madonna interim adoption rights.